engrave

(ĕn-grāv')
tr.v., -graved, -grav·ing, -graves.

1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy.
2. To carve, cut, or etch a design or letters into: engraved the silver watch with my monogram.
3. 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a block or surface used for printing.
   2. To print from a block or plate made by such a process.
4. To impress deeply as if by carving or etching: The experience was engraved into his memory.

engraver en·grav'er n.

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Cut, etch, or incise figures, letters, drawings, or other devices on a metal surface for personalizing, for decoration, or for reproduction by a printing process.

verb

1. To cut (a design or inscription) into a hard surface, especially for printing: carve, etch, grave³, incise. See marks.
2. To produce a deep impression of: etch, fix, grave³, impress, imprint, inscribe, stamp. See marks.

IN BRIEF: To carve or etch letters or designs on.

There is no The End to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. — Mirabel Osler.

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• Graphic Arts - engrave: (vb) produce image or design on printing plate by scratching it with a sharp tool

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - gravere, præge, indgravere, indprente

Nederlands (Dutch)
graveren, griffen, ingraveren (ook b.v. in het geheugen), een gravure afdruk maken

Français (French)
v. tr. - graver, (Typ) graver au burin, (fig) graver, empreindre

Deutsch (German)
v. - eingravieren

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - χαράσσω, εγχαράσσω (κν. σκαλίζω)

Italiano (Italian)
scolpire

Português (Portuguese)
v. - gravar, esculpir, estampar

Русский (Russian)
запечатлевать в памяти, гравировать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - grabar, tallar, imprimir

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - gravera, inrista

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
刻上, 铭记, 雕刻

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 刻上, 銘記, 雕刻

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 조각하다, 명심하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 刻み込む, 彫る, 深く刻む

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يطبع في الذهن, ينقش‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮חרת, גילף, חקק‬

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